Snap hook



(No Model.)

A. M. HYDE. SNAP HOOK.

No. 430,384. Patented Jun 17, 1890.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALPHONSO M. HYDE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE VEST HAVEN BUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SNAP-THOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,384, dated June 17, 1890. Application filed September 26 1889. Serial No. 324,752. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknownthatl, ALPHONSO M. HYDE, of West Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new Improvements in Snap-Hooks; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and

To which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective View of a snap-, hook embodying my invention; Fig. 2, an enlarged view in central longitudinal section.

My invention relates to an improvement in snaphooks particularly designed to be used in the manufacture of suspenders or braces, the object being to provide a simple, cheap, and eifective hook for this purpose.

With these ends in view myinvention consists in a snap-hook having its tongue and the actuating-spring thereof made in one piece of metal, and in certain details of construction, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

The body of the hook, as herein shown, is made in one piece of metal, and comprises the eye A, the shank B, having the upturned ears C C, and the hook D. The tongue E and itsactuating-springFare formed from a single piece of metal, the spring virtually forming an extension of the outer end of the tongue and resting and sliding upon the inner face of the shank B of the body. The tongue is pro- Vided about midway of its length with two perforated ears G G, each bent down at an 5 angle with it and receiving in their perforations fingers H H, bent inward and formed at the outer ends of the ears C C. The inner end of the tongue is engaged with the outeredge of the'loop, whereby the tendency of the 40 spring to throw the inner end of the tongue down is resisted. By making the tongue and the actuating-spring therefor in one piece of metal the number of separate parts in the complete hook is reduced and the making 5 and assembling of the hook simplified.

I am aware that hooks of this class have been constructed with the tongue and spring formed from one piece of metal, and I do not therefore wish to be understood as claiming, 5o broadly, such as my invention; but

NVhat I do claim is In a snap-hook, the combination of the body B, terminating in a hook D at one end, with the tongue E, hung upon a pivot in the body midway of its length to open upward, one end of said tongue extending to and adapted to engage said hook, the other extending from the pivot to form a handle and at its extreme end returned toward the body and toward the pivot to form a spring F, the bearing of the spring upon the body being forward of the end of the handle and near the pivot, substantially as described.

ALPHONSO M. HYDE. WVitnesses:

VVILBUR B. WARNER, W. A. O. ANDREWS. 

